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"We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to
get along."
-- Rebecca
Adamson For
Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it’s
also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our
protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the
resources on our territory to live.
-- Rebecca
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In every Indigenous
community I’ve been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they
do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able
to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains
them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous
people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood,
and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.’
--
Rebecca Adamson
In Indian country,
we should probably insist, first off, that our ancestors have never gotten the
credit they deserve from this country for surviving. Survival wasn't as easy then
as it seems now, and they never would have made it if they'd spent centuries wandering
in a daze until they came across a dead buffalo beside a cold spring, with a lightning
strike for fire somewhere in the background. To the contrary, tribes cooperated
with and among each other on everything from buffalo hunts to the fish catch and
crop harvests, none of which could have happened if our tribes had not known all
about self-governance.
-- Rebecca Adamson
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European explorers 'discovered' lands on the other continents, there were already
people living there. All too often the explorers took the land away from the native
or indigenous peoples and either killed them or suppressed them. In many cases,
the native languages and cultures were suppressed and the natives were forced
to adopt Western ways. Unfortunately, this isn't just a thing of the past -- many
indigenous peoples and their cultures are still threatened today.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein |  |
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Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all
that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other.
Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great
Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we
believe we are related to all other living species...
-- Dennis
Banks |
Although wrongs have
been done me I live in hope. I have not got two hearts… Now we are together again
to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends
advise me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be
the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges,
horses, and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white men anymore.
-- Chief
Black Kettle |  |
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The native American
has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and
the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the
fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept
his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as
he believed, the divine decree—a matter profoundly important to him.
-- Charles
Eastman (Ohiyesa)
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